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XB-ART-27877
J Biol Chem 1987 Nov 15;26232:15377-85.
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Comparison of the organization and fine structure of a chicken and a Xenopus laevis vitellogenin gene.

Nardelli D , van het Schip FD , Gerber-Huber S , Haefliger JA , Gruber M , Ab G , Wahli W .


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The structural organization and the coding nucleotide sequence of the Xenopus laevis A2 and the chicken major vitellogenin genes have been compared. Both genes show the same exon-intron organization. However, the degree of homology between the nucleotide and derived amino acid sequences varies extensively along the genes. Several of the 35 exons are quite similar, and a unique cysteine motif in the lipovitellin II domain is conserved between the two genes. In contrast, one internal region is quite divergent. Part of this region encodes phosvitin, which appears to have evolved rapidly by both point mutations and duplications of serines or short other amino acid stretches. On the basis of these observations, we discuss the possible mechanism of evolution of phosvitin in vertebrates.

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Species referenced: Xenopus laevis
Genes referenced: vtga2